BY DONGJAE JUNG Immigration issues in the United States have historically been contentious among policy actors in terms of who can and cannot immigrate and naturalize, and what categories of noncitizens should not be allowed to assimilate. Interestingly, the dividing line between which noncitizens [...]

BY A. RAHMAN FORD On December 17 of last year, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo announced a state-wide ban on hydraulic fracturing or “fracking.” The New York State Department of Health’s December 2014 report entitled “A Public Review of High Volume Hydraulic Fracturing for Shale Gas [...]

BY SAMER LIBDEH The current wave of radicalization among numbers of Muslim youth in Europe is obliging intelligence services to reconsider its approach to tackling jihadism, though this would not be without controversy. As was recently revealed, the UK’s domestic security service MI5 once tried [...]

BY SAYU BHOJWANI AND MAYOR REBECCA JIMENEZ When it comes to immigration, is Arizona finally making a U-turn? Perhaps not immediately, as many legislators and the Governor still support anti-immigrant policies. However, the Supreme Court’s decision to uphold a federal court’s ruling to [...]

BY ZOLTAN HAJNAL Most of the calls for reform in the wake of Ferguson have focused almost entirely on the criminal justice system. That focus is certainly warranted given the specific events that spurred the protest. Moreover, there are many positive steps that President Obama’s new Task Force on [...]

BY DIANE WONG When the Ferguson protests began in August, I had open conversations with friends about the extent to which we should engage our own politics in the classroom. How do we navigate the classroom in response to Ferguson? How do scholars of color talk about Michael Brown’s death in a [...]

BY RODOLFO ESPINO There are many topics that can be discussed regarding the recent uprisings surrounding a grand jury’s decision in St. Louis County, Missouri. I will simply focus on the problematic issues related to policing our communities, policing our borders, and the intersection of the [...]

BY CHRISTIAN DAVENPORT As people around the world attempt to fathom what has recently taken place when US police officers shot and killed young, African American men, it is important to take a step back from the specifics of each situation and think a bit more broadly about what is involved. When [...]

BY ADRIANO UDANI, TYLER CHANCE, DAWNA WILLIAMS, and DAVID KIMBALL Many anticipated the public release of evidence that a grand jury considered in its decision to not indict Officer Darren Wilson who fatally shot Michael Brown. Photos of Officer Wilson revealed no serious injuries. Yet, an exit [...]

BY A. RAHMAN FORD The Ferguson episode has been instructive in many ways. On the one hand, the protest and catharsis are inspirational and invigorating. On the other hand, there is also that residue of concern that it will become troublingly illustrative of a much larger malady plaguing post-Civil [...]

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